Barrel



Patented Supt. 20, |898.

J. c. EsTABBooK. BARREL.

(Application filed Jan. 25, 1898.)

V/ TNESSES NITED STATES' 'PATENT OFFICE.

` JEDEDIAH C. ESTABROOK, OF KEENE, NEV HAMPSHIRE.

BARREL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 611,067, dated September 20, 1898.

Application filed January 25, 1898. vSerial No. 667.848. (No model.)

To all whom/it may concern:

Be it known that I, JEDEDIAH C. ESTA- BROOK, a resident of Keene, in the county of Cheshire and State of New Hampshire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Barrels; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains to make and use the same.

My invention relates to barrels and the like, and has for its object to provide devices adapted for conveniently applying and removing heads to such vessels, which devices are also adapted to strengthen and defend the connection of the head and other parts of the vessel against either external orinternal pressure.

The invention consists in the construction hereinafter described and pointed out.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure lis a central section of a barrel, indicating the improvement at its upper end. Fig. 2 is a side elevation of the barrel. Fig. 3 is a plan of the same. Fig. 4t is a partial section on an enlarged scale, a plan of a staple being also shown in the same figure.

In the several gures, A denotes a bandor hoop preferably made of metal and shaped in cross-Section as substantially indicated in Fig. 4.

B denotes a barrel-head which may have its edge of a thickness uniform with its body portion, chamfering being unnecessary, though it can be chamfered on one or both edges, if desired. It may be made of any suitable material and in sections or not. Tooden sections of a form indicated in Fig. 3 are preferred for ordinary uses.

C denotes a portion of the side of a barrel, which, in the instance illustrated, is a stave and longitudinally curved, though straight staves may be used or any other suitable circumferential closure.

D indicates a shoulder extending entirely around the barrel and constitutinga seat upon which the head rests and by preference squarely, as shown. Above this shoulder the material of the barrel side-that is, of the staves in the present instance-is cut away in lines parallel, as shown, so that the head can be dropped upon the shoulder D after the barrel-body is hooped or otherwise closed circumferentially and secured in its completed form. After the head is placed'in position the hoop or band A is applied upon the top of thestaves, as shown. The inside portion is preferably made narrower than the outside and is so proportioned that, as indicated, its inside portion bears upon the head seated in the barrel end.

The outer part of band A may be made larger than the inner part and terminates near a hoop F and is defended by the hoop. The band is made of thin metal, as shown. lt can therefore be readily formed by stamping or otherwise.' Its inner part is made to stand at an angle to the outer part,whereby it can be applied to barrels having staves of different thicknesses without chamfering their ends and whereby also it bears upon the head at an angle as well as at an angle to the outer part of the band, and can therefore be more easily made to bear tightly upon the barrel-head. As the said inclined inner part is made of thin metal, it is adapted toyield to pressure when the band is forced to its seat. The thinness of the metal, as well as the particular form, contributes to this effect. A further object of using thin metal is that the outer part of the band may be effectually defended by a contiguous hoop against blows or pressure tending to displace the band.

It will be noticed that the inclination of the staves and outer part of the band is such that though the inner part is spread laterally it still bears on the barrel-head in lines not far removed from the vertical. It is incidental to the novel construction that dust or moisture, if it passes under the edge of the band next the head, will not be in immediate proximity with the circumferential joint of the head and will be retained in the chamber included between the head and band. There will also be a similar effect if flour or the like escapes from the interior between the head and staves.

E denotes staples passed through the band and barrel and into the head,as clearly shown.

The ordinary construction of barrel-heads such as indicated at the'lower part of Fig. 1 has a croze in the staves and a head with chamfered edges, and the head can neither be inserted norremoved without breaking the IOO head or loosening the hoops and spreading the barrel. Additional Well-known fastenings are required to hold such heads securely.

The particular class of devices to which the present improvement relates defends the ends of the staves and may hold in place a hoop, if desired; but these advantages are incidental to theconstruction,which provides that the head may be placed in the barrel and removed therefrom and replaced, if desired, without spreading or breaking and without other preparation than the removal of the staples. These are so situated that they can be removed easily, being very accessible and not necessarily driven in so tightly as to seriously resist withdrawal.

In addition to other advantages the head is held very firmly in place. The heads of wooden barrels as ordinarily made and applied are liable under some circumstances to be sprung out by pressure or concussion applied to the barrel between its heads, as by rolling one barrel against another; but such a result is prevented by the bands such as contemplated by the present improvement.

As shown in the drawings, the inner face of the staves comprising a seat for the head may be slightly inclined inwardly with the effect to cause said inner face to overhang the head, and thereby coperate in holding the head down in its seat. Obviously in this form the staves must be slightly spread when the head is applied. The band being an entire ring and of an approximate V shape in cross-section can be applied to the staves thus spread and forced down upon them with the e'lect to draw them together, its form adapting it for this use,when desired, as well as for ready application to barrels having staves of different thickness or to staves of unequal thickness in the same barrel. It is a further advantage of the V form that the inner wall of the band better supports the ends of the staves against transverse blows adapted to break them.

Having described my invention, what I claim is- In a barrel or the like, the band consisting of an entire ring of approximately V shape in cross-section and comprising two parts inclined to each other, the outer part fitting the staves and the inner part bearing on the head at a distance from the staves whereby the band may Without chamfering of the staves be applied to those of dierent thicknesses or applied before they are Iinally closed together, and whereby the inner part of the band can be made to bear tightly on the head at an angle to the staves to more effectually guard the barrel-head joint, and to protect the end of the staves against transverse blows, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JEDEDIAII C. ESTABROOK.

Vitnesses GEORGE COLE, CHARLES C. BUFFUM, 

